Cognitive remediation therapies for schizophrenia result in
improvements in cognition, symptoms and psychosocial
functioning, particularly when combined with neuropsychiatric
rehabilitation (meta-analyses: e.g. adjunctive social skills
training, vocational training; [88,89]). Of particular interest,
recent computer-assisted cognitive rehabilitation and training
studies have successfully shown improvements, not only in
cognitive functioning, but also in negative symptoms [90], reality
monitoring [91], social cognition [92] and employment
[93,94] and functional [95] outcomes in schizophrenia. We
therefore conducted a study to test the promise of computerbased
rehabilitation programmes for schizophrenia and
further suggest their potential for helping patients achieve
better functional outcomes